Music review: Nairn International Piano Trio
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
NAIRN INTERNATIONAL PIANO TRIO **** COMMUNITY CENTRE, NAIRN
John Lewis
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CD/DOWNLOAD RELEASE: Monterey Jazz Festival Records to Release Six Archival Recordings
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Monterey Jazz Festival Records, in collaboration with the Concord Music Group, will issue the second wave of six never-before-released, archival live recordings taped on the Arena stage of the world-famous Monterey Jazz Festival. The releases are slated for August 5, 2008, seven weeks prior to MJF's celebration of its 51st annual presentation of world-class jazz, September 19-21, 2008...
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Finding the bright side of the blues
The Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Eric Bibb looks at the way he's portrayed by the media - as the sunny, optimistic and youthful bluesman - and reflects that two out of three isn't bad.
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John Lewis: “Django” (1965)
Sisyphus (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
John Aaron Lewis (1920 – 2001) was an American jazz pianist and composer best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Above he is performing at the Jazz Piano Workshop in Berlin 1965 with his own classic “Django” -- an homage to gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, first recorded in 1954, the year after Reinhardt's death.
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Something Else
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Avid expectation invariably precedes a concert by Ornette Coleman, the revolutionary alto saxophonist, composer, and sometime trumpeter and violinist. But the revivalist fervor that accompanied his appearance at Town Hall on a recent Friday evening was something else. This was Coleman’s first New York appearance since a flurry of institutional . . .
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Cecil Payne: Saxophonist with Dizzy Gillespie
The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/11/2007
Cecil Payne was the first to play bebop on the baritone saxophone during the Forties, and he didn't see the need to change his style much in the next 60 years. His shyness and reluctance to trouble anyone led to him becoming a recluse trying to survive on the cheapest tinned food when he was almost blinded by glaucoma a few years ago.
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Trio West -- Plays Holiday Songs
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 27/10/2007
Leader Tobias Gebb, born and raised on the west side of Manhattan, pays homage, with his trio, to home and family on this traditional holiday album. Since 1995, Trio West has found reason to carry a straight-ahead jazz message to its New York audience year-round, with a mix of the new and of the old. Recalling the heartfelt and easy-on-the-ears musical good fortune of The Modern Jazz Quarteta(TM)s...
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Gil Coggins
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 15/10/2007
Gil Coggins, Better Late Than Never (Smalls). The first phase of pianist Coggins' career tapered...
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GARY MCFARLAND - POINT OF DEPARTURE
Orgy in Rhythm (Free subscription) | 30/09/2007
Gary McFarland for Impulse from 1963. Willie Dennis (tb) Richie Kamuca (ts, ob) Gary McFarland (vib) Jimmy Raney (g) Steve Swallow (b) Mel Lewis (d) Here's an excellent introduction to the mighty Mr. McFarland from the wonderful Doug Payne.com -a highly recommended visit if you have an interest in some of the jazz posted here. Assembling a stellar sextet with intriguing instrumentation, McFarland puts...
